Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 8

              lehigh university brown and white vol 94 — no 8 bethlehem pa friday october 1 1982 215)861-4184 humphrey raps ifc rush book's bad role models by dave paul university provost arthur humphrey said that he was ' quite upset at the kind of image the 1982-83 interfraternity council ifc rush book presents refer ring to the large number of fraternities featuring pictures of brothers drinking humphrey said that pi lamba phi and delta sigma phi were particularly guilty of presenting a bad role model he cited pi lam's photo of a brother urp ing into a bucket with a half-gallon of whiskey beside him as discouraging to the kind of image fraternities should or really want to project he added that occasionally hanging one on is not so bad but a picture of someone blasted out of his conciousness definitely detracts from the book's overall image mark d'agostini 83 president of pi lam said that the house didn't mean to offend anyone or present a bad role model he added that perhaps the pic ture should have been edited but he shelf-improvement b&w photo by scott horton new study carrels in linderman are just part of a 160,000 remo deling plan for the library increased seating capacity and private study areas are improvements designed to provide a better envir onment in which to study for that all-important midterm sorority-relocation discussion draws over 200 by michelle dumon more than 200 members of the univer sity community present at yesterday's forum xiii meeting expressed overall support and enthusiasm for a proposal to relocate onto main campus the three sor orities currently located in the saucon married and graduate student smags facilities in saucon valley support for the relocation of the sorori ties was dampened by several groups reservations about the housing options presented during the meeting the first officially to include a period designated for discus sion on an important campus issue uni versity president peter likins said he would attend every forum meeting to respond to questions in the long run we need efficient regular mechanisms to maintain the dialogue among stu dents faculty and administration he said adding that the forum and faculty meetings will serve that purpose the sorority housing issue is perhaps the single most important student-life issue facing lehigh university accord ing to assistant dean of students for res idence warren soare the sorority housing problem the taylor renovation plan and sorority housing options were addressed by soare who cited the results of various surveys and reports concerning this issue faced with the problems of limited space and isolation from the main cam pus women from the sororities advo cated relocating on to campus to increase membership and expand the overall sorority system karen lindquist 83 president of alpha gamma delta noted that as women's interest in sororities increases every year the need to expand the sys tem also increases we could be a bet ter part of lehigh and be more socially interactive if we were on the main cam pus she said some of the sorority housing options under consideration include renovating either taylor hall or the centennial i complex to house the sororities now in smags soare said since taylor is already in desperate need of renovations according to eric ottervik vice president for administra tion and planning it might be much more cost-effective to put the sororities in taylor rather than in the centennials several people at the meeting were concerned with the possible displace fma eyes computerization for saving time and money by ann white according to a feasibility study done by the fraternity management associa tion fma board the proposed compu terization of the fma could result in a total cost-savings for the entire frater nity system of approximately 15,000 a year against a total cost of less than 20,000 5o a month per fraternity ." the proposed computerized system would save both time and money on oper ations which are presently done by hand in the fma office according to the study the fma has already started the transition by gradually implementing the new system manually as the compu ter would do it and if the system is approved by the fma board and the interfraternity council ifc treasur er's council the new system will be on line by dec 15 according to dick jones director of the fma the savings to the fraternities will only be there if everyone participates in the system said john burke 83 presi dent of the fma board since this is a tight year financially interest rates are going down and the fma will not be mak ing as much money on our investments burke questioned whether or not this is the right time to invest in the computer system as a result of purchasing the system the fma's expenses would rise but this should be offset by the savings in the food budgets of the fraternities who participate in the food ordering program operations of the fma to be computer ized include the general ledger payroll accounts inventory control for the ware house and the food ordering program for house stewards some features of the system include the instantaneous avail ability of information vital to fraterni ties and fma staff information 2 guilty in computer case by john anderson two university students were found guilty on sept 21 of theft of com puter services and violation of pub lished regulations pertaining to university controlled equipment the students who pleaded guilty to the charges crashed the deck 20 last spring for two days during finals associate dean of students robert cohen said they took away the availability of the computer from the students at a crucial time these peo ple depended upon using the comput ing facilities to get their work done the university committee on dis cipline sentenced the two students as follows reimbursement of 1186.50 to the university computer center divided evenly between the two a two-hour-a-week work assignment for the remainder of the fall semester and a warning that any further unauthorized use of computing servi ces would result in extreme sanction meaning expulsion or suspension cohen case officer for the univer sity committee on discipline said the decision was fair the students were not completely aware of the conse quences of their actions the commit tee concluded we crashed the deck 20 during an experiment we tried said one of the students ' we didn t think it was pos sible and were very surprised when it worked the punishment will hopefully serve as a deterrent against any further such actions cohen said it is also important that the uni versity community realize that their rights in this case computing servi ces are being protected something is being done about people who invade others rights he said hopefully no one else will attempt to do what we did because the implica tions are very serious as we found out one of the students said see humphrey page 8 see forum page 2 see computerization page 8